Does anyone recommend a good one that doesn't install a bunch of malware or other crap on your system?

thanks in advance.

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Have you tried Google documents? FYI the PDF has to be saved as "editable" to begin with. If all else fails and its a one time thing you can DL the Illustrator 30 day trial and do whatever you need to.

Adobe strongly advises against running unsupported and outdated software. The serial numbers provided as a part of the download may only be used by customers who legitimately purchased CS2 or Acrobat 7 and need to maintain their current use of these products.

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Then don't give out the F@#KING SERIAL NUMBERS. I read about this a few months back they were gonna do this but you were gonna have to log into Adobe Live and enter your old number for a new one. But from what Frick posted they just said screw it!

FYI guys Photoshop CS2 isn't 64-bit. This is fine for minor editing and such but nothing that you need tons of RAM for. HOWEVER Illustrator is only 64-bit in CS6 so if you wanna a bad ass vector program CS2 is plenty!

FYI guys Photoshop CS2 isn't 64-bit. This is fine for minor editing and such but nothing that you need tons of RAM for. HOWEVER Illustrator is only 64-bit in CS6 so if you wanna a bad ass vector program CS2 is plenty!

It will run fine AFAIK. It just won't support a lot of RAM and you will get major slow downs. Photoshop RAPES RAM.

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Well I might have to give this a try. I took a photoshop class my freshman year of college and we used CS3, i still have a copy of CS3 but the student trial ran out years ago lol. Would be nice to have a legit version again. I just do light editing here and there.

I'm somewhat confused as to why people are recommending Adobe software, especially Adobe software that is old. While I can appreciate that Photoshop is an industry standard and Flash Player is used quite a bit (more than it should be), I can also appreciate that Adobe software has been exploited a number of times over the years, leading one to believe they don't take security as seriously as they should.

Anyway, here's how I usually try and find the most favorable freeware (I would have an ad blocker running. In the past I've had issues, but the site is legitimate):

From that list, CutePDF and PrimoPDF seem like your most favorable choices. They are ad-supported, but this generally means they ask if you want to install the Ask.com toolbar or something else during installation.

I'm somewhat confused as to why people are recommending Adobe software, especially Adobe software that is old. While I can appreciate that Photoshop is an industry standard and Flash Player is used quite a bit (more than it should be), I can also appreciate that Adobe software has been exploited a number of times over the years, leading one to believe they don't take security as seriously as they should.

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Acrobat is also the industry standard for PDF manipulation, which makes sense considering Adobe developed the PDF format.

Also, we are recommending it because even though it is 7 years old, it is still better than any of the freeware out there.

The freeware is OK if you just want to make a document in some other program then output it as a PDF, but the OP asked to actually edit a PDF. There simply isn't decent freeware that allows that. Acrobat 7.0 that comes with the CS2 suite is by far the best freeware for the job.